STALIN’s FOREIGN POLICY
The War Inside for War OutsideUSSR Foreign Policy: 1917-1939
THE NAZI THREAT TO THE USSR
• 1933 Hitler comes to power in Germany
• Hitler’s views about Communism & Russia
• Threat changes. How will USSR respond?
A MUCH MORE INTERACTIVE USSR
• Aim: Gaining protection from German threat
• League of Nations (1934)
• Franco-Soviet Treaty of Mutual Assistance (1935)
• Maxim Litvinov (1930-1939)
CHANGES IN THE COMINTERN
• Social Fascism to Popular Front
STALIN’S AIMS?
• Buying time?
• Building confidence?
• Western suspicion
SPANISH CIVIL WAR
• USSR support to Republicans
• Nazi support to Franco and the Fascists
• Britain and France?